St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-08-03

brought over to Oakdale. L. l., and.
put in charge of all the acres he neededs
to start fine egg farm. After care
fully mapping the ground Mr.. TamS
proceeded to build summer houses and !;
winter houses for his feathered charges
The latter he called hibernatieries. /,
They had glass fronts and looked like
miniature winter seaside hotels. Each;
breed of fowl had one or two houses as
signed to it, each house having its own
yard, or run, as it is called in the hem;
niSt'S tongue. These runs were divided
and bounded by high wire fences that
even game cock couldn't fly over,
Starting from almost common begin-ii
ming they broadened out fam
like until with their skele-I
ton arch-Shaped end theys
looked like the frame of some mighty
pie left as memorial by historic LOngi
Islanders. Mr.. Tams himself did none
of the hard work. He planned. de-
signed, surveyed and boSSed things,
while half dozen plain Americans per-
formed the manual labor. When alF
was ready for occupancy, Mr.. TamS
couldn't find fancy fowls in Americas
good enough for him to supervise, sol
he sent to England for choice specimens:
of Leghorn, Creve-COur, Houdan, Sea-
bright, Langshan, Spanish Doninqne,f
Brahma, Sumatra, AluSiOn and Other
high-bred strains. In due time he had
things running beautifully. Mr.. Van
derbilt came down once or twice an6
was delighted to see how nicely hiSl
hens were getting along, as well as en-
chanted to listen to the noble andl
dythirambic utterances of his importedi
hennist. When it was time
FOR EGGS TO BE MATCHED i
in the early spring Mr.. TamS would lett
none of the clucking hens have any,
SOuSed all the wOuld-be hatcherS in cold
water and gave them red pepper to-
make them lively, after the traditionSl
OF his learned profession. Then hei
bought two papent incuDators holding,
600 eggs apiece and warranted to turns
out 1.200 chicks on schedule time every
twenty-one days. These were locateG
in handsome building, hard by the
pleasant cottage his employer had built:
for him. When the chicks were born
he had provided patent brooders, queer
combinations of steampipes and lambs:
wool, under which they nestled and
the idea that they had a
terrible steam mother who could lick
all the other hens in the country even
If she couldn't scratch for living. Last
spring Mr.. TamS added to the poultry
outfit lot of cemenI-bottOmed duck
ponds and goose lakes, also houses for
the accommodation of such Pekin ducks
and Poland geese and other swell birds
as were graciOusly pleased to accept
MIR. Vanderbilt'S hospitality. With the
approval of Mr.. Vanderbilt Mr.. Tams
took Mr.. Marshall into partnership and
arranged to open the idle Hour farm
hnr,ntt5 on Enrfu cfx IN, hset,
town. The young men were to pay Mr..
Vanderbilt $3.50 per year for the fowl
and egg output of Oakdale and could:
have it. Mr.. Marshall was to have sole.
charge of the store and the partners,
were looking forward to
BIG PROFITS.
The chances are their expectations
would have been realized if Mr.. Vander-
bilt hadn't taken it into his head to take
a trip around the world in his steam
yacht Alva. About month ago Mr..
Tams began to think wicked thoughts,
and the further away the Alva sailed
was to put Mrs. Tams and the little
Tamses aboard the City of Chester when
she sailed over week ago for Liver
pool. He told them be would soon join
them in England. Then he quietly sold
out all the peultry outfit belonging to
the millionaire; the portable houses,
the wire fencing, the chicken
the breeders, the
egg stampers, everything was sold
but the land. Mr.. Tams got altogether
about 5000. Then he skipped, but
whether to England or not no man
knoweth. Partner Marshall got word
few days ago that Mr.. Tams was miss
ing. He took horse. ferry boat and rail-
road train to Oakdale, l.. L., and looked
f, for Mr.. Tan Tams:, 1t was was IN vain; Only
gesting to him how neatly Mr. Tams
had cleared everything valuable from
its face. Detectives are looking for the
erring pOulterer now, but no sporting
man would back their chances of fnde
ing him.